Quotes from Richard Foreman’s “The Manifestos and Essays”

3.) the new possibility (what distorts with its weight) – a subtle insertion between logic and accident, which keeps the mind alive as it evades over-quick integration into the mental system. CHOOSE THIS ALWAYS! (4)

ALWAYS NOTATE YOUR EXACT SITUATION AND PROCESS WHEN WRITING! (8)

Art is not beauty of description or depth of emotion, it is making a machine, not to do something to audience, but that makes itself run on new fuel. (11)

I want to be seized by the elusive, unexpected aliveness of the moment. (12)

surprised by

a freshness

of moment that eludes

constantly refreshes. You got toward it

and can’t seize it? (12)

by letting moment disintegrate it, as no assertion

really true in the face of the elusive now, the real

moment, which in its bottomlessness turns what it holds

into the bottomless anti-matter of what is itself (12)

Subject: THE EFFORT OF PUTTING WHATEVER ARISES TOGETHER

That EFFORT. (13)

“a new cadence means a new idea” (13)

I have evolved a style that shows how it is now with us, in consciousness…I show the mind at work moment-by-moment. (21)

Most everybody thinks in inherited abstractions, idols (Fred, the sky, the trees, Wanda’s desires, Ralph’s personality, love, hate, etc.) so of course the